In retrospect: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Fifty years ago, a short book appeared under the intriguing title The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Its author, Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996), had begun his academic life as a physicist but had migrated to the history and philosophy of science. His main argument in the book - his second work, follo...
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| Summary: | Fifty years ago, a short book appeared under the intriguing title The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Its author, Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996), had begun his academic life as a physicist but had migrated to the history and philosophy of science. His main argument in the book - his second work, following a study of the Copernican revolution in astronomy - was that scientific activity unfolds according to a repeating pattern, which we can discern by studying its history. |
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